Moving to software defined cloud environment, there is no way to get around OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution that basically is able to control and manage entire IT infrastructures. It is a component based...

In my previous blog , I talked about the significance of multitenancy and how YARN (yet another resource negotiator) is an important development for organizations deploying Hadoop environments. Here I will discuss about some of the advance...

All in the Hadoop world are excited about YARN . For those who don’t follow such topics, YARN is an acronym for “yet another resource negotiator” . YARN is an important development for organizations deploying Hadoop environments. ...

Among tech topics that generated most buzz at the recently concluded Red Hat Summit in San Francisco - cloud , software defined infrastructures and open source stood out. Leading experts in the industry shared valuable insights on the...

I got the title of this article as a question through a private Facebook message. I decided that this is probably something that a lot of people are thinking about, so I figured I'd post my thoughts here. (I've also been very sparse at writing here so...

I haven't written here for a while. A lot of changes have been going on behind the scenes for me. Around the time that I wrote my last entry I was brought into a new team within ISV Developer Relations at IBM. As a result, I am no longer editor for the Linux...

I haven't been writing so much over the last few weeks. There are good reasons for it, but nothing that would particularly interest my average reader. Rest to say that I am living in interesting times. There's nothing really bad going on, but interesting...

Smoothwall Express is one the most popular open source Linux firewall distribution which comes at zero cost and is configured through a web-based GUI. Due to its clean and user-friendly interface, it remains the favorite of people who are new to Linux. Its...

Lots of random things today. Today's silly email From: Scam Mail DO YOU NEED A LOAN, IF YES REPLY FOR MORE INFO. At least they are honest about scamming you. IBM Linux on POWER I think Linux and the POWER architecture are an outstanding combination. I would...

Using IBM DB2 from node.js Node.js is an asynchronous, event-driven I/O based server side java script environment for writing scalable internet applications. It is one of the favorite server side environments that is being adopted today. In this post, I...

Today I got another one of those InfoWorld articles with one of those sensational titles called " Beware these open source lock-in schemes ". I had to take a look. The open-source world has really come a long way. I remember when telling people a...

Seems like it has been the month of open source music/media players on this blog. First it was VLC, then Clementine and then Miro. Following the trend, this time I thought about writing on another FOSS music player SONGBIRD. Songbird is a free and open...

A new stable version of Apache LibCloud has just been released. LibCloud includes a driver for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. This version includes fixes and enhancements. You can download it from http://libcloud.apache.org/

I was at an event this weekend. It was a non-technical event with a group of artists. One of them had designed something which could be customized and had a DVD showing exactly how to recreate what he was doing. On the DVD he included a PhotoShop template...

Before I get to the BOSSies (Best Open Source Software awards), I saw this article today: " Brand-new hardware -- now with malware pre-installed! " That's a terrific time saver! Imagine being able to participate in denial of service (DoS) attacks...

Today I was pointed to the article " How would you fix the Linux desktop? " through slashdot . (Yes, another one of those articles.) I am quite comfortable using a Linux desktop and have been for nearly a decade, so it's not very mysterious to me. ...

Being an open source enthusiast, I always look out for valuable information on open source and whenever I get some I quickly share it with everybody through various sharing platforms on internet. The other day I was surfing videos on internet and I found this...

I recently had a call with some people who are interested in
contributing to the Real World Open Source and Real World Linux communities here one
developerWorks! Yay! I would like to see a lot more input by people in
these places. As a part of that...

Gone are those days when open source software were used only by start-ups and small corporates. Today big companies are using and promoting open source software. Google, the internet search giant uses Linux(modified to cater its own needs) for most of its...

Black Hat 2012 Computer security fascinates me. I freely admit that I don't have the chops that many do about cracking into or securing syststems, but I do alright for myself... on securing systems, that is. I'm certainly not claiming in any way that I spend...

Today I was looking over an interesting article called " Great open source map tools for Web developers ". Look, I'm taking off my IBM hat and setting it way over there. Now it's just you and me with no major corporations to bother us or be...

Tom Young, developerWorks editor for the new mobile
content area , joins me to talk the big thrust of this topic are:
Worklight Mobile Platform , free 30-day trial
with links to peer support community
Coming in June, a free developer edition of...

This is the live feed for Chris Walden's broadcasts. You can catch them by following @sxswdw or Chris's own feed @cmw_osdude . Schedule and archives are below. Live streaming by Ustream Videos will also be uploaded to Chris's YouTube Channel .

"Is my Open Source project XYZ supported on WebSphere Application Server?" IBM is a massive advocate of Open Source projects and contributes to a huge array of important Open Source projects. You may have heard of some of them; Eclipse (IBM...

Today I read a piece from my email: The Internet should not be anonymous . I know that in some ways these pieces are meant to create conversation and controversy, which makes me an excellent lemming. The premise that Mr. Grimes sets forth is that in these...

(updated 2/20/2013) NOTE: As of February 2013 I am no longer the editor for Linux and Open Source on developerWorks. Don't worry! I didn't get fired or anything. I got rolled into a new team which draws upon all the skills I applied on developerWorks as...

Andy interviews notable technology analyst and open source advocate Andrew Binstock , who discusses the open source business model, including licensing and code hosting options, and talks to the perfect storm that must occur for an open source project to...

Recorded during the summer, No Fluff, Just Stuff speaker Ted Neward talks .Net lessons for the Java world, alternative languages on the CLR, why Eclipse is the one IDE the Visual Studio team fears, closed source versus open source, Microsoft’s cloud platform...

I just wanted to take some time to say thank you to all the people in the open-source world who make it possible for me to do so much with my little computer. Maintaining a project is a largely thankless task, with the greatest reward being to have what you...

Check out this week’s content highlights, then listen to our interview with Chris Wanstrath , founder of GitHub , the popular web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. Chris talks about creating GitHub, about the...

During passed week I've found a few interesting projects dedicated to xPages. 1. First of them is XPages Extension Library . It is very interesting because of minimum two reasons: It was created to speed up the web development in xPages by providing the...

I've been getting news here and there about the parting thoughts of Microsoft's software chief, Ray Ozzie. He wrote a blog entry which appears to see the future as not wrapped up on a PC. I'm still chewing on this one. My general view of Open Source is that...

Vive LibreOffice! I've used OpenOffice.org since it was known as Star Office. (That's
been a while.) When it was absorbed into the Sun umbrella, I wasn't
sure what to expect, but Sun seemed to be a pretty good steward of the
project, even creating a...